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MusicBox RevolvingDoor
Metro Hall, King Street Entrance
April 17th to May 22nd, 2011; Free
An art installation by Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund & Duncan MacDonald as part of "The Good Host" Contemporary Art Exhibit and Celebrate 27 Arts Fest – Celebrating art in our communities
MusicBox RevolvingDoor transforms Metro Hall's King St. entrance into an experiential sound work – generating the delicate tones of a music box as pedestrians move through the revolving door – making an ordinary experience, extraordinary!
The Good Host Contemporary Art Exhibit takes place in locations across Toronto, posing questions about individual agency over the public realm while introducing a moment of wonder into daily activities and urban infrastructure.
So please, come out and give it a whirl!
About RevolvingDoor MusicBox
MusicBox RevolvingDoor adapts the mechanical principles of a music box to a building's existing revolving door, transforming this architectural detail into an experiential sound work. As pedestrians enter the building, the door’s rotation generates a phrase of music that is amplified as it reverberates through the glass and metal and throughout the space of the entrance-way.
The familiarity of revolving doors throughout public space makes their elegant mechanical simplicity easy to overlook, but MusicBox RevolvingDoor introduces a momentary reverie into an otherwise ordinary action. Reflecting the social dynamics of Metro Hall, MusicBox RevolvingDoor amplifies the gesture of the individual to the magnitude of the collective, in the same way that the music box mechanism has been enlarged from the miniature to the architectural.
- Janis Demkiw, Corwyn Lund, and Duncan MacDonald, 2011
About The Good Host
MusicBox RevolvingDoor is part of The Good Host, a multi-site group exhibition curated by Su-Ying Lee and presented by the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga. Located throughout the city, The Good Host can be experienced as one, or a series of encounters that provoke deliberation. The aim is to unfix the viewer’s perception of prescribed uses for urban space and reconsider their own agency within it.
Other artists in The Good Host are Michael Connor and Heather Keung on view at the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and Atom Deguire at the Blackwood Gallery and along Queen Street West. MusicBox RevolvingDoor is presented in conjunction with Celebrate 27 Arts Fest, a month long partnership program of Toronto artists and arts organizations that celebrates Article 27 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and art in our communities.
For more information about The Good Host visit blackwoodgallery.ca
Metro Music Box performances
Starting on Monday, April 4, and continuing through Friday, April 8, the Metro Music Box series will feature free midday performances by Toronto musicians as part of Celebrate 27 Arts Fest. The performances will take place in the Metro Hall Rotunda, 55 John St. (at King), from 12 noon to 1 p.m.
The Metro Music Box schedule is as follows:
- Monday, April 4: Rock, Salt and Nails; Mountain Music, Fiddle and Banjo.
- Tuesday, April 5: Anwar Khurshid; Classical Indian Music, Sitar.
- Wednesday, April 6: Replay Jazz Duo; Jazz Vocals and Guitar.
- Thursday, April 7: Ania Soul; Soul and Alternative Vocals and Guitar.
- Friday, April 8: Regent Park School of Music Violinists; Classical Violin.
For more information, please call 416-392-6371.
